I Still Do A Weekly

Jimmy Lee Baylis Was A Wise Man, And Knew Better Than To Talk Back To The Man Who Signed His Paycheck.

You Can Do The Best Research And Be Making The Strongest Intellectual Argument, But If Readers Don't Get Past The Third Paragraph You've Wasted Your Energy And Valuable Ink.

When I Was Writing Razor Girl, I Thought It Would Be Fun To Have A Redneck Tv Family That Was Really Just A Bunch Of Actors Who Had To Be Trained To Be Rednecks. That's Not So Farfetched, If You Know How Hollywood Works.

Y'see, I Get So Bored So Easily. I Like To Start With A Clean Slate Each Time. Sure, I'll Have Characters Drop In And Out Of Books But The Main Cast Of Characters Always Changes. Maybe I'm Wrong But I Think If Had The Same Joe Detective Guy Or Gal, I Wouldn't Write Them As Well; I Wouldn't Do As Good A Job.

From My Experience, Politicians Are Much More Uncomfortable Being Made Fun Of Than They Are Being Preached At And Screeched At - You Know, And The Soapbox Routine. They're Much More Uneasy Knowing They're A Target Of Ridicule.